Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely
managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing
doesn’t necessarily make you a loser. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a tuneful,
clever, heartwarming, and hilarious tale of overachievers’ angst chronicling the experience of
six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show, which
critics called “irresistible and entirely lovable”, champions the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky
yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out
and fit in at the same time.